Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, in a commuter belt to the south of Edinburgh, and also near to Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The community was built on coal and also oil shale mining, and the paper sectors. Loanhead continues to expand, mostly due to the influence of the ongoing development of Straiton Retail Park which includes one of just 2 IKEA shops in Scotland, but also progressively as a dorm room town for Edinburgh, parts of which are under 20 minutes away. Regardless of the proximity of large shops such as Sainsbury's and Costco, the main road, Clerk Street, is active with website traffic as well as regional consumers. A large, modern-day industrial estate with around 100 various concerns gives a wide variety of tasks for local homeowners. Organisations consist of MacSweens haggis manufacturing facility, and Cops Scotland's Communications Centre (The Force Communications Centre, or FCC) where all radio web traffic as well as emergency situation calls are handled. The Pentlands industrial estate was opened in the 1970s, and a number of retail as well as various other organisations profession from the perimeter of the town. These were from the likes of Gregg's to the extra commercial firms focusing on welding and steel fabrication.